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  School of Communication and Information 2015–2017 Faculty and Administration Department of Library and Information Science  

Department of Library and Information Science


Chair: Ross Todd

Marc Aronson, Assistant Teaching Professor; Ph.D., New York
Literature for young readers; Common Core

Nicholas Belkin
, Distinguished Professor; B.A., M.Lib., Washington; Ph.D., London
Information science; information retrieval theory; interactive information retrieval; people's interactions with information; human-computer interaction in information systems

Kay Ann Cassell, Lecturer; Ph.D., International
Reference; grantsmanship

Kaitlin Costello, Assistant Professor; B.A., Vassar; M.S., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Information seeking, new media, and health

Marija Dalbello, Associate Professor; B.A., Zagreb (Croatia); M.L.S., Kent State; Ph.D., Toronto
Theory and history of information; social history of knowledge; visual epistemology; cultural informatics; history of the book; digital humanities

Ingrid Erickson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Stanford
Information technology and organizational behavior; locative technologies and social media; innovation and collaborative work practices

Michael Lesk, Professor; B.A, Ph.D., Harvard
Digital libraries; digital preservation and the economics of digital information

Claire McInerney, Associate Professor; B.A., Creighton; M.A., Central Michigan; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Knowledge management; information ethics; virtual organizations; community informatics and health; gender and technology

Daniel O'Connor
, Associate Professor; B.A., Niagara; M.S.L.S., Ph.D., Syracuse
Research methods; library science

Lilia Pavlovsky, Associate Teaching Professor; B.A., Canisius; M.L.S., Ph.D., Rutgers
Pedagogy;understanding and use of emerging technologies; web applications and new media; collaborative work practices and tools; design processes

Marie Radford, Professor; B.A., Trenton State; M.S.L.S., Syracuse; Ph.D., Rutgers
Interpersonal and nonverbal communication; librarian-user interactions; media stereotypes; cultural studies; qualitative methods

Rebecca Reynolds, Assistant Professor; B.A., Tufts; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse
Computer-supported collaborative learning among youth in constructionist design-oriented environments

Joe Sanchez, Assistant Professor; B.A., M.S., Texas A&M (Corpus Christi); Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Collaboration and user experience in virtual worlds; social informatics; LIS pedagogy

Chirag Shah, Assistant Professor; M.Tech., IIT Madras; M.S., Massachusetts; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Information retrieval; collaborative information seeking; social media

Vivek K. Singh, Assistant Professor; B.E., M.C., Singapore; Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Big data; behavioral informatics; social computing; multimodal information systems

Anselm Spoerri, Lecturer; B.S., London; M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information visualization; data fusion; information retrieval; multimedia interfaces

Sharon Stoerger, Assistant Teaching Professor; B.S., M.L.I.S., Illinois (Urbana); M.B.A., Nebraska; Ph.D., Indiana
Computer-mediated communication; virtual worlds; social media; mobile learning; augmented reality; instructional technology

Ross Todd, Associate Professor; B.A., Queensland (Australia); M.A., Kuring-Gai (Australia); Ph.D., Technology-Sydney (Australia)
Human information behavior; adolescents' information seeking and utilization; school librarianship; knowledge management

Joyce Valenza, Assistant Teaching Professor; B.A., New York (Binghamton); M.L.S., New York (Queens) and Villanova; Ph.D., North Texas
Digital literacies; technology and learning; school libraries; youth and social media

Nina Wacholder,
Associate Professor; B.A., Oberlin; M.S., Columbia; Ph.D., CUNY
Organization of Information; information access; computational linguistics

Xiaomu Zhou, Assistant Professor; B.S., Shandong; M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Health informatics; computer-supported cooperative work; human-computer interaction 
 
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